The video is all of 0:37 seconds, meaning an extensive tour of all the new features is out the door. In fact, there’s not too much one can glean from this outside of the fact that 7.8 looks fast and smooth on the 900. We do see a new Xbox icon and the tile resizing, but nothing else is revealed.

The good news is we probably only have another 60 days or so before we actually have this on our devices.

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Windows Phone 7.8 gets teased on a Nokia Lumia 900

funny thing is the new Blackberry 10 is coming in 60 days! lol So the question is if this update is enough to keep the Qwerty phone cutomers who is thinking about to switch to blackerry 10 because no windpws phone 8 has any damn keyboard phones...

If, however, you rely on playlists with local music, not just cloud, the goods do not always outweigh the bad. As a Zumba instructor I rely HEAVLY on local music in my playlists. I know Microsoft is working on the issues (because I've been in constant contact with support on Twitter) but playlists that sync in the cloud, which contain local music, do NOT pick up the music that I've moved to the phone. Now, I have NO problem with cloud based services, if they work correctly. There are far too many problems with the way music syncs and problems with the way playlists recognize (or don't recognize) music on the phone. I had offered my input many times to MS on Xbox Music during the Windows 8 iterations and how the functionality just wasn't there, and I know others did too because of the reviews for the app in the store during the preview process. I only hope Xbox Music matures to a point where the interface doesn't get in the way of functionality.

The new medium tile size is larger due to the removal of the gutter on the right side. It looks like they didn't increase the size of the icons on the tiles to better fit. It looks like a step back design-wise from the 7.5 start screen. This could be an older build as WP8 looked like this at one time but I think they eventually made the icons a bit bigger.

Trying not to get too excited into January but id love a new start screen I've reworked mines almost every two weeks trying to make it perfect. I'd also love to know if we will be able to screen capture thats something I miss having.

That's what I thought. I am getting a little aggravated with sites such as WPC leading us users on. Either way, it's a bit contrary to the information they went over on the PodCast.
Also, what is the deal with WPC servers? I can't post a comment from the App on Wi-Fi or data and the website is also lackluster lately. Hopefully they get it under control by June, or March, or 60 days ;)

Q1 is a very reasonable time frame to expect. If you cannot wait that long go get a WP8 device. If you can't get a new device then I am sure you will find a way to wait a couple of months. The features that are coming aren't exactly revolutionary, (although they will be nice) and aside from aesthetics, there isn't really anything new being added to the overall bones of OS, so I don't understand why everyone is getting so antsy. Maybe its me who is missing something.

Not sure how I got "caught in the spam filter" when trying to use any device. Maybe a frontseat diagnoses as to how this happened would be beneficial.
Either way, my "bunch of bitching" that someone else mentioned was hardly that. Most frustrating is the functionality of the site and the app that I paid for on my phone. If you want to push that back on me, then that is fine...I am, obviously, not nearly as sensitive as many others on here.

If you go to the Youtube video link on the site the uploader has mentioned in the comments that he found a demo unit running an early build of WP7.8 during the WP8 launch event, he just made a quick video of it during that time and happened to upload it now.

So this is NOT a custom ROM but an early build that MS used for demo during the launch event when they announced WP7.8 and WP8.

I don't think they will add it... i mean, it would be awesome but i really dont think they will give this "extra feature" to the preview on the tile...
I only want to have 7.8 on my phone, then ask for more extra features lol :)

this feature is there on 7.8 to preview the first unread message and the messages cound on the biggest livse tile. But it lack of transition between the unread messages, so if you have 2 or more you will only see the first that arrived. So this is no extra :)

The real bummer here is that they made the part when they tapped on the Xbox tile a bit on fast forward because when you open anything from start, there's a 1 second delay and it's really annoying. Its like 7004 all over again.

Great, cannot wait. AT&T is not that bad about rolling out updates, far better than t-mobile imho. Presently there is nothing wrong with 7.5, it does everything I need it to do, so I am in no rush to get the update, but I am excited about it and the awesome new features it will bring.